Michaela Morgan
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Michaela Morgan is a British children's author and poet. She has written more than 200 titles between 1987 and 2025 and publishes between two and three new titles each year. These range from picture books to junior novels.She also writes educational materials. Her work is published internationally.
Morgan was shortlisted in the Blue Peter Book Award 2013[1] and named an International Reading Association Children's Choice (2008). She won the United Kingdom Reading Association (now United Kingdom Literacy Association)'s 1995 Award.
In 2008, she was shortlisted in the Birmingham Libraries Award, 2008[2] for Respect (Barrington Stoke) about the black First World War hero, Walter Tull[3] and the Surrey Libraries Award 2009[4] for Night Flight.[5]
Respect also won the Libraries Short Read Award.
In poetry Morgan’s Words to Whisper Words to Shout (Belitha Press) was shortlisted for the BBC Blue Peter Award 2002.
She is a National Poetry Day ambassador.[6]
In 2017, Morgan's edited collection of poems, entitled Wonderland: Alice in Poetry, was shortlisted for the Clippa Poetry Award.[7]
